Marking-pot.



CHRISTOPHER A. G-ARVEY, 0F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

MARKING-POT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 2s, 1911.

Patented Jan. 9, 1912.

Serial No. 646,482.

To all whom it may concern.'

vnY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. ouis,Missouri, have invented certain new and .useful Improvements inMarking-Pots, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

My invention relates to a pot for holding and supplying marking fluid tostencil brushes and marking brushes, and has for its object theproduction of a pot of this description provided with independentcompartments, one of which holds marking fluid to be utilized insupplying a stencil brush and the other of which holds marking fluid tosupply a marking brush.

It is common practice at the present time, in shipping rooms, to utilizestencils in marking packages where there is any considerable number ofsuch packages to be marked at a single time, and to utilize a markingbrush without a stencil in marking a small number of packages, thispractice being followed for thereason that there is a great saving oftime in the use of a stencil if the number of packages to be marked issufficient to justify the preparation of a stencil; whereas, if thenumber is insufficient to justify such preparation, the old custom ofusing a marking brush only is resorted to. These facts being true, it isimperative, in order that the full value of the time of the personmarking the packages may be conserved, that a marking pot be provided inwhich both a stencil brush and a marking brush may be utilized, therebyavoiding the necessity for two marking pots, either of which may be at adistance from the user at the time it is desired in any particularinstance. With these objects in view, I have devised a marking pot thatsupplies the needs of the user both in so far as the use of a stencilbrush and a marking brush are concerned, and in which provision is madefor the supply of marking fluid from the marking brush compartment tothe stencil brush compartment.

Figure I is a perspective view of my marking pot; Fig. II is an enlargedvertical section.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 designates the vessel of my marking potproi vided with a handle 2 by which the vessel may be carried.

The interior of the device is sub-divided by a partition 3 intocompartments A and B, the former of which is a stencil brush compartmentand the latter of which is a marking brush compartment. The markingbrush compartment B is intended to contain a supply of marking fluidinto which a marking brush may be dipped, and said partition, which vispreferably inclined backwardly at its upper end from the wall of thevessel 1, is provided near its upper end with perforations 4 that permitof the delivery of marking fluid from the compartment B to thecompartment A when the vessel 1 is tilted to move the marking fluidthrough such perforations. 'Ihe compartment B is closed at its upper endby a lid 5 containing a perforation 6 through which the` marking brushmay be introduced into said compartment.

While it is desirable and, in practice, necessary, that a marking brushbe dipped directly into the marking fluid to receive its supply ofmarking material, it is not desirable that a stencil brush be dippedinto such fluid, but rather that there shall be such provision as willpermit of the stencil brush tip having marking fluid applied to it atits end only in order that there will not be a surplusage of markingfluid applied to a stencil on which the stencil brush is used to resultin destroying or smearing the characters produced in the use of thestencil and stencil brush. With this in mind, I place in the stencilbrush compartment a mass 7 of absorbent material, such as waste, thatmay be saturated with marking fluid, and placed above this mass ofabsorbent material a marking fluid delivery plate 8 to which the stencilbrush may be applied to receive its supply of marking fluid. Thedelivery plate 8 rests upon the absorbent material, is provided withperforations 9, and is corrugated or convoluted, thereby providingdepressions and ridges in the former of which the perforations 9 arelocated.

A marking fluid delivery plate 8 rests loosely upon the absorbentmaterial 7 and when a stencil brush is applied thereto and pressureexerted against the plate by the brush, the plate is depressed with theresult of causing the marking fluid to rise through the perforations inthe plate and adhere to the end of the brush tip and supply it with onlysuch quantity of marking fluid as it is desired it should be suppliedwith, or only slightly in excess of such quantity. The user of thebrush, after manipulating it as stated to cause it to be supplied withmarking fluid, may readily remove any excess of marking uid therefrom byone or more passages of the brush tip across the plate 8,

l Imaterial'beneath the plate.

Whenever the supply of marking fluid in the absorbent material in thestencil brush compartment becomes depleted, such supply may be renewedby the simple act of tilting the marking pot to cause a limited flow ofmarking fluid from the marking brush compartment B into the stencilbrush compartment, and it will therefore be seen that the marking brushcompartment serves as a I reservoir to supply the needs of bothcompartments of my marking pot.

I claim:

In a marking pot, a vessel, a partition subdviding said vessel into amarking brush compartment and a stencil brush compa-rtment, saidpartition having apertures ad- Ajacent its upper end for the passage ofink Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. e v

